Thursday, August 27, 2009

We'd exchanged emails over the last couple years, but it was a real pleasure to finally get to meet in person Thomas Kriese, the founder of urbanchickens.net. Thomas came to our recent San Francisco screening and joined in the lively chicken conversations afterward.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The following is from chicken author Christine Heinrichs who did a Q&A after last night's Santa Barbara screening:

What a delight to be greeted by over 200 enthusiastic chicken lovers! They came to view Mad City Chickens, and then talk about chickens. Katherine Anderson, local farmer who raises chickens and turkeys, and Loren Luyendyk, a carpenter who builds chicken coops, also answered questions.

The Santa Barbara Library’s Faulkner Gallery is a beautiful room. People squeezed in, some sitting on the floor. They were all good humored and eager to get help with their chicken questions and willing to help others.

I’ve seen the movie several times now. It’s a Feel Good movie as well as documenting the backyard chicken situation and the legal particulars of Madison, Wisconsin. Watching it with an appreciative audience makes it all the more enjoyable.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Tonight's public screening will be a Santa Barbara premiere. Sponsored by Hope Dance Films, the show will begin at 7:00pm at the Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu Street. Chicken author Christine Heinrichs, who's also in the film, is scheduled to do a Q&A after the screening.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

After the Madison Coop Tour, we had the great pleasure of having dinner with Pat Foreman, author of The Chicken Tractor! Her brand new book City Chicks is due out in October. Pat said a few words before the film last night. It was the first outdoor screening of Mad City Chickens that we'd attended. Tiki torches, lawn chairs and a wonderful crowd. What great fun! Thanks to Chris and Andrew Yero for hosting the event.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

End your coop-touring day by enjoying a free screening of Mad City Chickens as it was meant to be seen…in a backyard with chickens!

- Location: 1937 Vahlen Street in Madison (Lucinda’s Saloon)
- Bring your own chairs
- Doors open at 7:30; movie starts at dusk.
- Filmmakers will be there to talk about their movie and answer questions from the audience.
- Popcorn and water provided. Feel free to bring in other goodies
(adult beverages are fine)

Thursday, August 13, 2009

The Madison backyard chicken coop tour is this Saturday! After the tour, come to a free screening of the film.

The MadCity Chicken Coop Tour is a great event for both the curious and the serious to learn more about backyard chickens. This is a self-guided tour of coops throughout Madison. Location information for this year's tour is coming soon. You can also see a map of the tour with addresses and descriptions of the host coops and flocks at www.madcitychickens.com.

Special this year: See Mad City Chickens the movie!

End your coop-touring day by enjoying a free screening of Mad City Chickens as it was meant to be seen - in a backyard with chickens! Movie starts at dusk. The filmmakers will be there to talk about their movie and answer questions from the audience. The movie will be shown at the home of Lucinda's Saloon - 1937 Vahlen Street in Madison. Doors open at 7:30; movie begins at dusk.

Over 75 people filled the quaint Delancy Street Theater tonight for our San Francisco premiere. Four California cities in four days. And a first the whole audience sat through the entire credits as well as the Q&A that followed.

An unexpected, unedited shoot with Ed Clemens, one of our public
screening hosts for the Mad City Chickens documentary in Davis,
California. Ed shows how he modified a Dennis Harrison-Noonan coop
design.

Note: video quality is less than ideal due to the fact that the
only camera we had available to us was a point & shoot.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

OMG! Until now, the largest crowd to have seen our film was an audience of 300 in Milwaukee last spring. But last night that record was broken when well over 350 people packed the Richard Brunelle Performing Arts Theater to see the Davis premiere! The event was sponsored by the Davis Food Co-op and Slow Food Yolo to benefit Davis Farm to School Connection. A big thank you to Jake & Ed Clemens for making it happen!

Saturday, August 8, 2009

For the second night in a row, 100 people showed up to see the film, this time at the beautifully refurbished Guild Theater in Sacramento! The evening was sponsored by the Sacramento CLUCK group, an organization that is spearheading the movement to get hens legalized in their city.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Over 100 chicken enthusiasts showed up for our screening in San Anselmo, California tonight. Sponsored by Sustainable Fairfax and Permaculture Marin, the evening was just a delight with a lively Q&A session afterward as well as an informative slide presentation (by Pam Hartwell-Herrero, Executive Director of Sustainable Fairfax).

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The Latest on Our Films

We've been working for over seven years on a documentary about an autistic boy and his attraction to Disney's Snow White. The project is currently well into the editing stage but more interviews are still to be completed.

Also in the editing stage is Strindberg's Assistant. It's a fictional story set in both 1910 Stockholm and modern day America--and yes, there are ghosts. More scenes are needed to be shot for this one too.

Another narrative short in is No Sleep For Ronni, a sci-fi/fantasy flick about a woman with an over-active "dream state". While most of the movie is shot, once again there are still more scenes to be filmed.